Laura Jepsen
Timeline
This page is work in progress and will eventually chart many of events in Laura Jepsen's life.
Dates in Orange refer to Writings by Laura Dates in Green refer to Personal Events in Laura's Life
Dates in Red refer to events at the property on High Rd Dates in Blue refer to Educational Parts of Laura's Life
Note: All documents from Laura Jepsen's Personnel File at FSU are used with permission of FSU Human Resources Department and Laura Jepsen, (see Termination/Resignation Form here)
1852
Thies Nagle Laura’s great grandfather left
Germany for Davenport, Iowa
1866
Laura’s grandfather paternal Hans Jepsen left
Germany for Iowa
1875
Laura’s father John William Jepsen was born in Davenport, Iowa. Also, same year her mother was born in PA.
1887
Laura’s mother moved from Pennsylvania to a farm
near Everly, Iowa
1905
August 16
- Laura’s parents were married in Spencer, Iowa.
March - The Daily Iowan, March 12, 1931, article about Eta Sigma Phi dinner with toast by Laura Jepsen called “Dido was an ugly duckling”
1937
August - Enrollment at the University of Iowa is 5,423
1938
April - The graduate women's dormitory, Margaret Hall, destroyed by fire on University of Iowa's campus
May 11 - John William Jepsen, (Laura's father) dies
1941
December - Laura vacations in New Orleans, LA during the break from teaching High School at Rock Falls Township High. She is traveling the furtherest of the teachers taking a vacation that year according the article in the Sterling Daily Gazette, December 18, 1941
1944
March 11 - The Saturday Review of Literature, March 11, 1943, Letter to the Editor, "If Writers Were Really Honest,"
1945
July 30 - Final Examination of Laura Pauline Jepsen for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, program here
1946
January - The Daily Iowan, January 30, 1946, announcement that Laura Jepsen is a candidate for Doctoral degree
1948
May - May 28th, 1948, Laura gets her first passport, all of her passports can be viewed on the Passport page
Spring - Shakespeare Quarterly,
Volume 5, No. 2, Spring 1954,
page
230, Shakespeare: An Annotated Bibliography for 1953, reference to Dr. Jepsen’s book Ethical Aspects of Tragedy
March - South Atlantic Bulletin, Volume 19, No. 4, March 1954, page 20, ad listing Laura Jepsen’s book Ethical Aspects of Tragedy for sale for $3.75
March - South Atlantic Bulletin, Volume 19, No. 4, March 1954, page 15, correction listing thesis by Julie Storm entitled “The Impasse of Action in the Development of Tone: A Study of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Chekhov’s The Sea Gull, and Pirandello’s Henry IV”, under the heading English supervised by Dr. Jepsen
July - The Review of English Studies, New Series, Volume 5, No. 19, July 1954, pages 287-288, review of Laura’s book “Ethical Aspects of Tragedy” by Clifford Leech
October - Educational Theatre Journal, Volume 6, No. 2, October 1954, pages 272-273, review of book Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroes by Lily B. Campbell
November - South Atlantic Bulletin, Volume 20, No. 2, November 1954, ad for Laura’s book “Ethical Aspects of Tragedy”, sale price $3.75 from University of Florida Press
1954
June - June 7th, 1954, Laura gets her second passport, all of Laura's passports can be viewed here
1955
November - South Atlantic Bulletin, Volume 21, No. 2, November 1955, page 13, review of book “Homer to Mann, Masterworks of World Literature” by Edwin M. Everett & others, review written by Dr. Laura Jepsen
1956
Spring - Directory of 1955 Members
of the Renaissance Society of America,
page
56 lists Laura Jepsen as Regular Member,
published Spring 1956
March - Laura purchases three acres on High Road with funds borrowed from a friend
April - Studies in Philology, Literature of the renaissance in 1955, Volume 53, No. 2, April 1956, page 269, listing of her book Ethical Aspects of Tragedy for sale, mentions review by Hans Galinsky
April - The English Journal, Volume 45, No. 4, April 1956, page 230, review by Dr. Jepsen on book entitled The Trumpet Unblown by William Hoffman
1957
March - The English Journal, Volume 46, No. 3, March 1957, page 177, review by Dr. Jepsen on book entitled Chapman’s Homer, Vol. 1, edited by Allardyce Nicoll
April - The English Journal, Volume 46, No. 4, April 1957, page 232, review written by Dr. Jepsen of the book entitled “The Birds” by Aristophanea, An English Version by Dudley Fitts, one paragraph
1958
March - South Atlantic Bulletin, Volume 23, No. 4, March 1958, page 15, listing for Bernard Benstock thesis entitled “Ironic Alchemy: A Study of Language, Humor, and Significance in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake”, being supervised by Dr. Laura Jepsen
May - Educational Theatre Journal, Volume 10, No. 2, May 1958, page 137, Doctoral Projects in Progress in Theatre Arts, 1957, listing for William Lee Pryor thesis entitled “An Examination of the Southern Milieu in Representative Plays by Southern Dramatists, 1920-1956”, being supervised by Dr. Jepsen
1959
May - The English Journal, Volume 48, No. 5, May 1959, pages 287-288, Dr. Jepsen reviews a book by F. L. Lucas entitled Tragedy: Serious Drama in Relation to Aristotle’s Poetics
November -
South Atlantic Bulletin, Volume 25, No. 2, November 1959,
page
9, listing for Max Halperen thesis entitled “The
Structural Reading of The Cantos of Ezra Pound”, being supervised by Dr. Laura Jepsen
1966
March - South Atlantic Bulletin, Volume 31, No. 2, March 1966, pages 11-12, article entitled Life in Victory by Laura Jepsen
1967
Summer - Laura registers the Lichgate Oak with the Live Oak Society, it becomes number 264 in the growing registry
August 10 - Laura visits her sister Mrs. Chrystel Barrett in Pocahontas, Iowa, staying in her home. The visit is mentioned in the local newspaper.
1969
November - South Atlantic Bulletin, Volume 34, No. 4, November 1969, pages 5-7, article entitled Prince Andrey as Epic Hero in Tolstoy’s ” War and Peace”
1972
July - July 12th, 1972, Laura gets her third and final passport, all of Laura's passports can be viewed here
May - South Atlantic Bulletin, Volume 41, No. 2, May 1976, pages 68-70, article by Dr. Jepsen entitled Two Immodest Proposals in Tolstoy’s ” War and Peace”
January - South Atlantic Bulletin, Volume 43, No. 1, January 1978, pages 86-94, article entitled To Kill Like a Cossack by Laura Jepsen
June 08 - Last day of employment with Florida State University, see Termination/Resignation Form here
1981
April - Russian Review, Volume 40, No. 2, April 1981, page 221-222 review of her book From Achilles to Christ by Washington University professor Edgar H. Lehrman
1985
November - South Atlantic Review, Volume 50, No. 4, November 1985, page 185, Laura’s article “Life in Victory” shown in index
1995
